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10 Things The Pto Can Do To Enhance Context-Based Patent Disclosure, Colleen Chien
10 Things The Pto Can Do To Enhance Context-Based Patent Disclosure, Colleen Chien
Faculty Publications
The PTO held a roundtable and solicited comments on a proposal to require Real-Party-in-Interest disclosures in patents. Through this comment, which I submitted to the PTO, I support their efforts to elicit and disseminate ownership data by 1) explaining why ownership information, and context-information in particular, is so important to the core functions of the patent system of technology transfer and technology commercialization; 2) commending and suggesting several steps the PTO could take/continue to take to improve the quality, quantity, and dissemination of ownership information; and 3) providing an Appendix that summarizes each of the 17 comments that the PTO …
Patent Applications And The Performance Of The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Christopher A. Cotropia
Patent Applications And The Performance Of The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Christopher A. Cotropia
Law Faculty Publications
This Article reports data and analyses to facilitate answering these questions. The reported data was obtained from two sources. The first is the Workload Tables from the USPTO annual reports, called the "USPTO Performance and Accountability Reports," provided to the President, Congress, and public.' The second is data received from the USPTO in response to Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests.3 From these two data sources, information such as the number of applications filed per year, the type of applications being filed and prosecuted, the pendency of these applications, and their disposition, including the number of them issued as patents, …